Will do. Thanks.
--Dean
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * Dean Anderson <dean at av8.net> [2007-04-11 06:17]:
> > > I'd like to get some patches submitted to opensolaris. How/who do I talk
> > > to for that?
> > >
> > > The things I'm working on are:
> > >
> > > - syscall number added to /etc/name_to_sysnum for OpenAFS:
> > > afs 65
> > >
> > > I'd like to get this into the distribution.
> > >
> > > - modutility program to do modctl MODREADSYSBIND so that scripts can
> > > update the kernel when name_to_sysnum file is changed.
> > >
> > > - RFC1788/RFC4620 kernel support. These specify ICMP domain name
> > > queries/replies for IPv4 and Node Information queries on IPv6,
> > > respectively. Kernel support will return the hostname appropriately
> > > formatted.
>
> You will want to discuss the first two of these, particularly the
> system call assignment, on opensolaris-code, prior to spending time on
> patch/build/test. In particular, there is a group that would prefer
> to delete loadable system calls, in favour of only supporting the
> DDI/DKI (and maybe an FSI for filesystems) as the committed public
> interface for loadable kernel functionality.
>
> I recommend networking-discuss for the RFC1788/RFC4620 proposal.
>
> - Stephen
>
>
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